{"id":22,"date":"2008-01-15T10:37:14","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T10:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp\/?p=22"},"modified":"2008-01-15T10:37:14","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T10:37:14","slug":"horatio_alger_yes_horatio_alge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/2008\/01\/horatio_alger_yes_horatio_alge.html","title":{"rendered":"Horatio Alger? Yes, Horatio Alger&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"raggeddickseries.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/raggeddickseries.jpg\" width=\"169\" height=\"271\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>When Idols Fall<\/strong><br \/>\nFor those generous souls who were taken aback by the assertion in the last Out There posting that author Horatio Alger, Jr. was a pederast, you may wish to read <a href=\"http:\/\/capecodconfidential.com\/cccalger020515.shtml\">this careful explanation<\/a> of why the young Unitarian minister left his Brewster, Mass. parish so hastily.<br \/>\n<strong>And on a More Cheerful Note&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nHave you heard about the <a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/news\/2008\/01\/14\/wine-brain-behavior.html\">fascinating blind study<\/a> that demonstrates that drinkers prefer wine they think costs a lot more to the exact same vino at a giveaway price? (&#8220;Scientists prove that paint dries slowly.&#8221;)<br \/>\nBrain scans show that it&#8217;s not just a silly whim: neural &#8220;pleasure centers&#8221; actually go rat-tat-tat when the drinkers think they&#8217;re getting something that&#8217;s top-of-the-line. Yet maybe the response has more to do with the distinct thrill, one that every bargain-hunter knows, of getting something for nothing. The more expensive the freebie, the more you&#8217;ve ripped the system off.<br \/>\nThe next step? Apply the logic of this discovery to museum and performance admissions. For example, MoMA should raise its $20 ticket price to $100, but collect from only one out of five and let the other four visitors walk in, gratis. Total proceeds would remain the same.<br \/>\n&#8220;It must be the best art in the world,&#8221; they all will say. And the ones who didn&#8217;t pay a dime will enjoy themselves even more.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"moma.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/moma.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"150\" \/><br \/>\n* * *<br \/>\n<strong>For an automatic alert when there is a new Out There post, email jiweinste@aol.com.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Idols Fall For those generous souls who were taken aback by the assertion in the last Out There posting that author Horatio Alger, Jr. was a pederast, you may wish to read this careful explanation of why the young Unitarian minister left his Brewster, Mass. parish so hastily. And on a More Cheerful Note&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}